Elven Blood

I am addicted to digital games. I don’t often play them. But once one is shoved to me, you can kiss time, and my attention and my focus goodbye!! Of course, the aftermath of the whole thing will be “self guilt”. Recently, I was shoved to another game after receiving tonnes of invites from my friends in FACEBOOK.

ELVEN BLOOD – a RPG game. Somehow is more addictive than the other BLOOD series. Maybe, I am a sucker for medieval fantasy type game. In this game, there are many levels. You have to fight with tasks to collect points for your experience to level up. Along the way, there are items to collect and buy to increase your defense and attack points. I admit that I am very bad in deciding whether to level up my defense or attack points. You can also declare war on other players to collect gold and experience. The higher the level the opponent, the more stamina you need to attack.

Not to forget, you need to ask people to join your team. Certain tasks need an amount of party. The larger the party, the stronger your position. Anyway, I have been following tips from experience players. There are many players who blog their journey. Just google it up!

All right, back to my imagery world of ELVEN BLOOD.

Westward

Game: Westward

Genre: Strategy

 

Westward is a strategy game. The setting is Old West. The big plot is to capture this evil Mad Russian doctor that goes from town to town, giving out false promises. Of course, each town is in a bad state. Your task is to build up the devastated town to boomtowns, while collecting clues that will lead you to the mad doctor. Not really simple.

To make it more challenging, each town is accompanied with sub tasks. You need to fulfill these sub tasks to afford skills which can help build up your town. Examples of such tasks are irrigation, and finding your way to the cattle farm. The annoying thing is whenever you collect gold or wood in the sub tasks, you are not allow to bring those stuff back to your town. Sometimes I feel it is a waste of time to collect them. In certain sub tasks, you need to acquire some gold to buy dynamite to destroy blocked paths or food to keep away the hunger.

  

There are more than just sub tasks. You really have to build up the town. First, you need to build up a farm, “cut-wood” station and gold mine. Explore the place to get food, wood and gold for pre-survival. You have to add lavatories and wells. The lavatories / toilets have to be placed near the work station. Without lavatories, your settlers will have higher risk towards the plague. Don’t forget houses. AS the money increases, plus the wood, you can develop the town with saloon, trading post and also shops.

A constant supply of food is a must or you will have the settlers moving out of your town. There is the settlers talking or complaining. It can be a drone. After five minutes of playing the game, I have to turn off the sound and music.

Bandits and drunkards are big no-no to development. The drunkards, though harmless, will eat up the cash. The bandits, on the other hand, will destroy the building by “shooting” it down. A saloon is a must for hiring gunslingers, and a sheriff building for getting the sheriff and the deputy.

Don’t worry, there is tutorial in the first town. You will be able to grasp what to do and how to do in seconds.

The level of difficulty increases with every venture into a new town.

The tiresome part of the game is moving the settlers around the place to search how the area is and hoping to find things that can help with the town.

There will be a menu for you to monitor the overall development of your town.

Currently, I am playing Level 4: Paradise Falls (for the second time). I “lost” the first time after making several bad moves. I wonder if I am not smart or a bad strategist since this is not first time I lost in this kind of game. I wonder does this type of game can actually measure a person’s thinking skill.

For those who have never played PC games and will like to give PC game a try, this can be a start to try your hand on strategy game.

My overall rate for this game is 6/10.

Replay value is 3/10.

Graphics is 5/10.

Ciao Bella

Ciao Bella, is a simulation game by BIGFISH. Played it yesterday night and finished it after 2 hours of playing. In this game, I take the role of Elena, the main character of this game. The whole story is Elena has a boyfriend whom she has not been in contact for 2 years. The mother of that BF is insisting that both meet up. Of course, the motive of the mother is to see both of them married.

Now Elena have to solve tasks in each level while maintaining my health, family, harmony with other ppl, culture, work. There are two tasks; MAIN task and SUB tasks. The MAIN task is to get into your bf good books.On the other hand, the SUB tasks are usually related to family and work. Then, we have side-tasks. Menial but it is important to get points. Examples such as going to gym, shopping, helping the parents to clean the house, and having small talk with your friends and relatives. Even eating is accounted for.

To make it surreal, time is added.

So, another part you need to balance is time management.

The interesting part of this game, is the realisation that all work only will really damage you and the people around you. Extra stuff is needed to perk your life up like eating, exercising, even watching t.v or movies.

The screen shots below are where Elena stays. Her family, and her family’s little cafe.

   

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Prior knowledge for the designated tasks.

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Map of the Little Italia, and the PDA that keeps track your tasks.

 

The game is easy to navigate. Simple instructions. Colourful background graphics. Sometimes, Elena wears the same outfit to parties and evening dinners. This turns out to be very disappointing.

The bad part is I had a hard time solving some tasks. (NO CHEAT CODE WAS USED or WALK THROUGH TIPS ARE USED) Some items were hard to get. Though I didn’t get all of them, I still manage to go to the next level but certain points were deducted.

The fact that Elena has to complete main tasks to get the ring from the BF is actually not my idea of getting your way to be hitched.

Overall, the game, in my opinion, scores 5/10.